2012-2013

May 5 – June 6, 2012

Chin Chih Yang
Commissioned Installation

This project will be primarily made of cans and other recyclable materials (Industrial cables, plastic and hospital use oxygen tube and more).  The artist looks for  a conservational aesthetic in a society for the most part dedicated to waste. Not only do the cans have aesthetic features themselves such as shape, color, texture, and a certain relationship to light, the sheer multitude of cans used in the installation shows how much more waste would have gone into the landscape had it not been for the Chin Chieh Yang’s creative endeavor with this project.

June 14
THE BENEFIT

June 29 – July 8
A Map is not the Territory
Martin McCormack & Elizabeth White
Curated by Jessamyn Fiore

From the city grid to the human form, we map our physical world in an attempt to quantify our identity as two-dimensional ‘fact’. This exhibition brings together two artists who question the authority of such documents by using them as found material. From a giant assemblage of New York City to the delicate lines of the human face, Martin McCormack and Elizabeth White illuminate what dwells beneath the map.

July 13 – July 1
Continent w/o Boarders
Organized by Sabastian Pardinas

The Argentinian artist Sabastian Pardinas has assembled a multimedia event of the shared cultures of the Americas, with music, poetry, painting and sculpture. Details to be announced later.

July 19 – August 2
Field Notes
Paintings by Deborah Everett
Curated by Janet Pihlblad

Influenced by Philip Guston as well as matchbook art, Deborah Everett’s work presents allegorical scenes steeped in a sense of place, spatial ambiguities, and figural interaction. Employing a style that shifts from pseudo-naturalism to almost cartoonish simplicity, she mines the implications of surface, everyday objects, and cultural symbols.

August 3 - August 6
Special Showing of video by Veit Stratmann

The artist was asked by the French National Agency for the treatment of Nuclear Waste (ANDRA) to contribute to a “think tank” on how to keep the memory of the waste sites and the knowledge of what is stored there alive for future generations.

With his proposal Veit Stratmann presented extensive notes on his reflections on memory and art. He based his project on the assumption that the inevitable loss of memory over time, regarding the nuclear waste storage site, can be compensated by an augmentation of its volume. The video shows the unfolding of the enormous crater into the earth that would have to be dug out next to the site, in order to show the depth and size of the destruction of the landscape that took place when the nuclear waste was buried there.

August 9 – August 19
Untitled,
Photographs by Hiroki Kobayashi
Video by Jamie Williams

These photographs, showing the devastation caused by the tsunami in the area around Minami-Sanriku in Japan one year ago, were taken in March 2012. A series of photographs of local fishermen from the town of Shizugawa is included in the exhibition. After loosing their boats, houses, and members of their families, the men have formed a co-operative, sharing and working together with the few basics left over by the tsunami. The video documents the difficulties communities have, a year after the tsunami, knowing how to assess the risk of radiation exposure.

August 23 – September 16
New Work
Mildred Beltre

September 22 – November 4
Sculpture
Aritsts: Merril Wagner  .  Monique Luchetti

In this exhibition Merrill Wagner's large and imposing industrial steel flowers are juxtaposed with Monique Luchetti's fluent, organic constructions.

November 14 – December 16
American Landscapes
Artists: Marin Abell, Josh Bricker, Dan Carlson, Ira Eduardovna, Ben Finer, Daniel Glendening, Peter Lapsley, Tom Pnini, Rick Reid, Corina Reynolds, Greg Stewart, John Wanzel.
Curators: Dan Carlson

The curator has chosen all new work by 12 young artists whose take on the American landscape and environment is subversive, ironic, cynical, angry, lively and stimulating.

Monique Luchetti



American Landscape